Poultry-roost



H. WINDAHL.

POULTRY BOOST.

APPucAIloN FILED SEPT. 25, 1918.

1, 35 1 ,45 6, v Patented Aug. 31, 1920.

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yroumny-noosirf To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WIND A HL, a citizen of the United States, and a resi dent of New Sharon, in the county of Mahaska and State-of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Poultry-Roost, of which the following is a specification. I

The object of my invention is to provide a poultry roost of simple, durable and inexpensive construction.

More particularly it is my object to provide a poultry roost having cross bars or roost members, provided with a receptacle for a disinfectant or the like and with a cover therefor having a groove and having means for transmitting the disinfectant to the cover so that the fowls roosting on the cross bars will be subject to the action of the 1 disinfectant.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the ObJ'GCtS contemplated are attained ashereinafter more .broken away, the view being taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

' In the accompanying drawings I have used the reference numerals 10 and 11m device. 7

End members .12 connecting the ends of indicate respectively .the 7 front and rear T members of a frame forming part of the the members 10 and 11 are provided. The member 11 may be supported on a wall or otherwise as may be desired, and themember 10 may be supported in any'suitable way, as for instance, by means of the legs 13.

As many of the cross barsmay be employed as desired, and itwill, of course, be understood that the size of the frame and length of the cross barsmay be regulated according to the requirements.

Specification of Letters-Patents. .fFatgnt Application filed September 25, 1918.

Serial No. 255,725.

In the yaccompanyingf drawings I have] shown one ofthe'cross bars which I will now describe. I a .o 7

Each cross barconsists of a bar 14: pref d its. 31,1920;

era'bly of wood of suflicient strength for the purpose and having its ends supported upon the members 12. In the upper surface short of the ends of the bar. Resting upon the upper surface of th cross bar la is a cover strip 16having inf its upper surface a longitudinal-grooved? Inthe bottom of the grooved? isa plurality of openings 18 extending through a j g of the cross bar member 14. is a longitudi nally arranged groove 15 which terminates o 1 each other along the" The groove 15 is designed to receive a liquid disinfectant 19 and there is threaded through the openings 18 a wick 20, shown in Fig. 3, which iseXtended-downthrough the openings into the liquid 19. r

The wick 20 may be fastened to the cover strip 16 by means of staples 21 or any other a suitable fastening devices. The cover strip 16 is fastened to the barlt by means of nails or other suitable devices 22, whichnails extend down below the cross bar 1 1 and may be driven-into the'end members 12 for.

fastening the cross bars to the end members.

t will be seen that when it isdesired, the

cover strips may be .removedby removing the nails 22 .forcleaning out the groove '15 and putting in a fresh supply of disinfectant, or for one.

replacing the wick 20 with anew The entire cross bars maybe readily and easily removed for cleaning or otherwise.

The device is of very simple and inexpen 1 sive construction and on account of the fact that the bars may be assembled independently of the frame, it will'be seenthat theessential parts of the invention .may be stored or shipped in Convenientform, and 7 may be readily and easily installed on the job. 1

Some changes may bemade' i'n the construction and arrangementof the partsof' I my improved roost without departing from 105 Q the essential purposes of my invention, and it is my intention to cover by my CliLlIIL any modified forms oistructure oruse of mechamcal equ valents WhlOh, may be reason- ;ably includedwithin their scope.

I claim as my invention:

its length, a top bar mounted on said perch bar andlcovering said channel, said top bar 7 iotbeing ,formed withan upwardly opening groovethroughout the major portion of its length, and formed with spaeedli'oles forming communication between said groove and channel, means for securing the top barto the p r h b ,,-:-an g a\ Wick: memb nl-y ng- .said;-groove,;said wick member also being 7 extended through the holes in said top bar into-said channel.

Des Moines, Iowa, August 29, 1918.

- HENRY WINDAHL. 

